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Nature Electronics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 52.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Nature Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2520-1131Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Cost to publish: About US$12,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrumentation | 1 / 206 | 99th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 6 / 1030 | 99th | Q1 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 4 / 318 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 52.5.
Nature Electronics is Q1 in Instrumentation (rank 1 of 206), Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 6 of 1030) and Q1 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 4 of 318), by CiteScore 2025.
Nature Electronics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 52.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 12.430, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 159.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$12,690 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Nature Electronics is published by Nature Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 2520-1131.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Nature Electronics has an h-index of 188 and a 2-year mean of 17.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 52.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 146 Scopus journals in Instrumentation.
Nature Electronics published 215 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 71 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (29%), United States (25.1%) and Singapore (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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